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^Solomon, David (21 December 1972). "Snedden Faces His First Problems". The Canberra Times. p. 3.
^"Snedden faces his first problems". Canberra Times. 21 December 1972.
January 01, 1970
1972, liberal, party, australia, leadership, election, election, leadership, liberal, party, australia, took, place, december, 1972, following, former, prime, minister, william, mcmahon, resignation, after, defeat, 1972, federal, election, billy, snedden, succ. An election for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Australia took place on 20 December 1972 following former Prime Minister William McMahon s resignation after his defeat at the 1972 federal election Billy Snedden was successful in winning the leadership narrowly beating Nigel Bowen by 30 votes to 29 on the fifth ballot The previous ballot was tied at 29 each with one MP not voting James Killen John Gorton and Malcolm Fraser had earlier been eliminated from contention in that order 1 1972 Liberal Party of Australialeadership election 1971 20 December 1972 1975 Candidate Billy Snedden Nigel Bowen Malcolm Fraser First Ballot Uncertain Uncertain Uncertain Second Ballot Uncertain Uncertain Uncertain Third Ballot Uncertain Uncertain Uncertain Fourth Ballot 29 50 0 29 50 0 Eliminated Fifth Ballot 30 50 9 29 49 1 Eliminated Seat Bruce Vic Parramatta NSW Wannon Vic Candidate John Gorton James Killen First Ballot Uncertain Uncertain Second Ballot Uncertain Eliminated Third Ballot Eliminated Eliminated Fourth Ballot Eliminated Eliminated Fifth Ballot Eliminated Eliminated Seat Higgins Vic Moreton Qld Leader before election William McMahon Elected Leader Billy Snedden Contents 1 Background 2 Candidates 3 Results 3 1 Leadership ballot 3 2 Deputy leadership ballot 4 Aftermath 5 ReferencesBackground editThis section is empty You can help by adding to it March 2021 Candidates editNigel Bowen former Minister for Foreign Affairs Member for Parramatta Malcolm Fraser former Minister for Education and Science Member for Wannon John Gorton former Leader and Prime Minister Member for Higgins James Killen former Minister for the Navy Member for Moreton Billy Snedden incumbent Deputy Leader and former Treasurer Member for BruceResults editLiberal Party of Australia deputy leadership ballot 1972 nbsp 1971 Aug 1977 nbsp nbsp Candidate Phillip Lynch Andrew Peacock Fifth Ballot gt 30 lt 29 Seat Flinders Vic Kooyong Vic Deputy Leader before election Billy Snedden Elected Deputy Leader Phillip Lynch The following table gives the ballot result 2 Leadership ballot edit Name Final ballot Percentage Billy Snedden 30 50 85 Nigel Bowen 29 49 15 Deputy leadership ballot edit Name Final ballot Percentage Phillip Lynch lt 30 Andrew Peacock gt 29 Other candidates in order of elimination Malcolm Fraser Jim Forbes Don Chipp James KillenAftermath editThis section is empty You can help by adding to it March 2021 References edit Solomon David 21 December 1972 Snedden Faces His First Problems The Canberra Times p 3 Snedden faces his first problems Canberra Times 21 December 1972 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1972 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election amp oldid 1194911482, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
